放狗屁!游行示威占领也好,有非法的与合法的一说。怎么都他妈的不提这个茬啊!
村长说不care,但是却表现的非常care,总是要强调这是非法的游行示威,意思就是警察可以去抓人去抓背后黑手。赞村长一下,在重大问题上,村长的表现始终是与北京中央保持一致,虽然在小事情上会唱唱反调。
一个游行示威是不是非法不是某个媒体或政府或村长说了算的。是不是非法只有法庭说了才算。香港法庭说了这香港学生游行示威占中是非法的了?村长急急忙忙就先断定这占中是非法的,还以似乎是不容别人挑战的口吻说这占中是违法的。md (对应村长的“放狗屁!”), 即使上法庭,辩护律师还可以挑战起诉人的“非法”而字。
村长的依据是Ottawa的bylaws。你在市区驾车的时速、停车的位置都是city bylaws 控制的,你就从来没有超过时速或停错地方或吃过罚单,这就是违法。如果你是和平的,警察抓你了不,把你关上一两个月再放出来不?Patrick Brazeau昨晚因醉酒坐在驾驶座上被警察关一晚也是得到 justice of the peace 的授权(
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...au-arrested-again-after-failing-breathalyzer/)。
关于加拿大对于和平游行示威,可以参看这位律师的post,虽然亦有争论(那时专业人士的争论了),但基本概念是清楚的。题目是 The law of street protest in Canada
http://lawiscool.com/2010/07/04/the-law-of-street-protest-in-canada/
几个要点给你highlight here:
The starting point for any analysis is the guaranteed freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly in sections 2(b) and (c) of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We start here because these freedoms are secure from any government body, including the federal parliament and provincial legislatures.
There is no absolute freedom of assembly in Canada. First, the Charter itself limits it by guaranteeing only “peaceful” assembly. That’s why the government can restrict certain kinds of assembly that it considers not peaceful. Such restrictions do not infringe on the Charter freedom of assembly unless the courts disagree with the government’s interpretation of what’s “peaceful.”
Only law can limit a Charter right. A police officer cannot limit a Charter right on his or her own initiative without any authority in law. When the police break up a street protest, they can do it either because the protest is not peaceful or because law prohibits the protest for a good reason acceptable in a free and democratic society. Police officers may not break up a protest in any other circumstances. If they do, these officers will be breaking the law.
Our police forces are professional, highly trained, and generally honest. But it is not their job to determine the content of the Charter freedom of peaceful assembly. Provincial legislatures and the federal parliament must step in and give clear guidance to the police when they can break up street protests. The police can make mistakes and may have its own institutional interests that are not necessarily the same as the public interest. The people have a right to clear notice of what is lawful, and we all have a fundamental freedom of peaceful assembly.